Feeling kinda down . . .

My allergies have been kicking my butt the past few days causing me to have horrible post nasal drip and sinus headaches. This alone has been causing me to feel nauseous, gag, and even throw up. Mind you, I take Zyrtec once a day for my allergies and now Bonjesta for my all day pregnancy nausea. I called up my OB today as asked if I could take a steroid nasal spray since that’s what I’m usually on from mid September to around thanksgiving time and initially they said no and to use a saline spray. But the saline spray doesn’t work. So after some investigating, they told me I can take rhinocourt since it’s a category B. I’m excited to start it this evening so that I can start to get some relief and potentially regain my appetite that’s always suppressed when I have allergies this bad. Why do I feel down? I’m only 7 weeks and I’m taking Zyrtec once a day for allergies, now rhinocourt for seasonal allergies, progesterone suppository (first trimester only) for low progesterone, and Bonjesta for my all day nausea. I feel terrible about being on so many meds this early in pregnancy, but I can’t do without any of them. Anyone else in similar situations? Advice? Support?

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My allergies have been horrible, I'm miserable from ms even on zofran, I cried today because I HAD to shower and do my hair. I've gone from super active working out 7 days a week sometimes twice a day. Having a vert activity social life and 3 jobs I love to slogging through my day at my primary job. I'm right there with you.

My allergies have been horrible, I'm miserable from ms even on zofran, ...

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10/09/2018

My allergies have been horrible, I'm miserable from ms even on zofran, I cried today because I HAD to shower and do my hair. I've gone from super active working out 7 days a week sometimes twice a day. Having a vert activity social life and 3 jobs I love to slogging through my day at my primary job. I'm right there with you.

Actually is pretty easy and if you do it twice per day every single day, you can even drop the medicine that you are taking right now.

You only need a neti pot that is like a jar, you can even find something similar in a pharmacy, then you have to use 0.9% sodium chloride, you fill the neti pot and use it, you can look for some videos on YouTube to learn how to use it. This is similar to the saline spray, the big difference is that this method really clean everything, you even will feel that you're able to breathe again. I know this because I used to use saline spray, took a lot of allergy medicine and that only calm the symptoms but I ended up at the hospital but since I do what I have told you I haven't use any pill again.

This is my kit by the way. So you can have a reference. I hope this would help you. I took allergy pills from 1 month more doing this, and after that just in "emergency" cases but I have almost 1 year without them.

This is my kit by the way. So you can have a reference. I hope this would hel...

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10/10/2018

This is my kit by the way. So you can have a reference. I hope this would help you. I took allergy pills from 1 month more doing this, and after that just in "emergency" cases but I have almost 1 year without them.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve tried Neti Pots in the past. Had my doctor show me how. Unfortunately, Neti Pots tend to incite a sinus infection for me. They just don’t work for me unfortunately. Would be great if they did. I think they work better for people with congestion. I’m not congested. I had horrible post nasal drip and for whatever reason, it doesn’t work for me. Thanks though!

I love neti pots and think they work great, but when my DH (dear husband) was a medical student he went through the phase of telling me everything that could possibly go wrong health-wise, and he told me that if you don't use distilled or boiled water you could inadvertently give yourself an amoeba that goes straight to your brain through your sinuses (very rarely happens when people get lake water up their nose, but you know, a teeny tiny miniscule risk with tap water). So now despite the fact that it's a completely unreasonable fear, I'm afraid to use a neti pot unless I first boil and cool the water.

TLDR: I'm afraid of brain eating amoebas so I just use sterile saline nasal spray from Walgreens.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve tried Neti Pots in the past. Had my doctor ...

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10/10/2018

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve tried Neti Pots in the past. Had my doctor show me how. Unfortunately, Neti Pots tend to incite a sinus infection for me. They just don’t work for me unfortunately. Would be great if they did. I think they work better for people with congestion. I’m not congested. I had horrible post nasal drip and for whatever reason, it doesn’t work for me. Thanks though!

I had sinus too when I started to use it. When you used it you did it with water with salt make by you or you bought sodium chloride? I ask this because i heard of people that preparing their own solution they got irritated and never help them

I had sinus too when I started to use it. When you used it you did it with wa...

Posted
10/10/2018

I had sinus too when I started to use it. When you used it you did it with water with salt make by you or you bought sodium chloride? I ask this because i heard of people that preparing their own solution they got irritated and never help them

I had sinus too when I started to use it. When you used it you did it with wa...

Posted
10/10/2018

I had sinus too when I started to use it. When you used it you did it with water with salt make by you or you bought sodium chloride? I ask this because i heard of people that preparing their own solution they got irritated and never help them

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